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Maghrebis or Maghrebians (Arabic: المغاربيون, romanized: al-Māghāribiyyun) are the inhabitants of the Maghreb region of North Africa. [13] It is a modern Arabic term meaning "Westerners", denoting their location in the western part of the Arab world .
Many Maghrebi residents took a more negative view of France after the Rif War occurred. [5] The areas in Paris settled by Maghrebis in the 1920s and 1930s were rue des Anglais, Les Halles, and Place Maubert. In addition a Moroccan community appeared in Gennevilliers and Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine also received Maghrebis. [7]
Arabs in France are those parts of the Arab diaspora coming from the Maghreb and the Middle East, who have immigrated to France, as well as their descendants.Subgroups include Algerians in France, Moroccans in France, Mauritanians in France, Tunisians in France, Lebanese in France and Refugees of the Syrian Civil War.
Maghrebis have settled mainly in the industrial regions in France, especially in the Paris region. Many famous French people like Edith Piaf , [ 30 ] Isabelle Adjani , Arnaud Montebourg , Alain Bashung , Dany Boon , Zinedine Zidane , Karim Benzema , and Kylian Mbappé have Maghrebi ancestry.
Isabelle Adjani Dany Boon Jamel Debbouze Gad Elmaleh Nicolas Cazale Leïla Bekhti. Fu'ad Aït Aattou, actor, Moroccan Berber father and French mother; Cédric Ben Abdallah (Ben), humorist, Algerian father and French mother
Haplogroup J1-M267 accounts for around 30% of Maghrebis and has spread from the Arabian Peninsula, second after E1b1b1b which accounts for 45% of Maghrebis. A study from 2021 has shown that the highest frequency of the Middle Eastern component ever observed in North Africa so far was observed in the Arabs of Wesletia in Tunisia , who had a ...
While Maghrebis played a significant role in France's war effort, their contribution was ignored after the war. Rather, the French government continued their oppression in Algeria, angering North Africans in France and causing the rise of African rights groups.
The population of France is growing by 1,000,000 people every three years- an average annual increase of 340,000 people, or +0.6%. [7] France was historically Europe's most populous country. During the Middle Ages, more than one-quarter of Europe's total population was French; [8] by the seventeenth century, this had decreased slightly to one ...